Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-10-18
LAID AT REST.
Remarks BY President Dwight of
Yale At the Funeral of Rev. DR.. BUR-
ton In Hartford Yesterday.


appropriately draped in black. Brief ser
vices were held at the house on Sumner
street at 1:30 Prayers were read by the
Rev. Dr. E. P. Parker and the Rev. J. 81.
Twitchell. The funeral procession then
wendell its way to the church where the de-
ceased oficisted as pastor.
The pulpit platform was occupied by about
seventy-five clergymen of Hartford
and various parts of the State. Among
the visitors were: Professor Fisher of Yale,
Rev. Drs. Munger, Todd, Hart and Twitchell
of New Haven, DR.. Buckingham of Spring
field, Dr. Cooper of New Britain, Rev. T. II.
Hall of Meriden, Rev. G. c. Wilson of Wind
sor. Rev. Horace Winslow of Simsbury, and
the Rev. Messrs. Andrews and Hicks of
Wethersfeld.
The floral tributes included large Bible
of white immortelles, with the following in
nurple upon the open leaves: "Not Here,
but Risen" On the right of the pulpit was
broken column of ivy. The baptismal font
was filed with choice flowers and large palms
and autumn leaves completed the deco
rations.
The Rev. DIR. Stone of the Baptist church
read the scriptural lesson. Rev. Prof. Pratt
of the Theological seminary offered prayer.
after which the Park quartette sang. Ad-
dresses were delivered by President Dwight
of Yale, Rev. J. Fl. Twitchell, Rev. DR.. Par
ker, all being beautiful and admirable trib-
utes to the worth, excellence and ability of
the deceased. At the close of DIR. Parker's
address the old Christ church quartette sang
81 Heard a Voice."
Upon the conclusion of the services the
casket was removed to the vestibule of the
church where the public was given an oppor-
| tunity to take the last look at the familiar
| face and form. The burial was at Cedar Hill
i cemetery.
4 ~. sI,-k~ fo11,
| After reviewing the life of the deceased he
| said:
We loved him and he loved US. 1t is with
| this thought that we meet together this af-
ternoon for the simple and impressive service
| of the hour before us. The friend whose
| mortal parts we lay tenderly and tearfully in
| its peaceful resting place, and whose immortal
| living self passes to larger, grander life as
we bid him farewell, was common friend to
| US all. Strangers to one another, it may be;
| having our homes in many different
| places and our work in many different lines;
some of us coming into this time of sorrow
| from the Joy of almost daily communion
| in thought and hope, and others recalling to
| our remem brance the delightful associations
| of earlier or later years, we turn our foot
| steps lovingly to this consecrated house and
| find ourselves united in bond of sympathy
as we enter within its doors. The spirit of
| the dead yet loving friend seems to rest upon
/
a large minded, large hearted, generous,
noble man he was. The world, we whisper
| sadly to each other, has lost out of itself for
I us something that it will not regain, and be-
comes poorer and emptier to our thought
as one more of those minds and souls
| that appear to US peculiarly fitted for a
higher life than this moves on
! we say concerning him! Only what friends
may say in the first hour of separation from
| one whom they remember with the vividness
| of yesterdays life and whose deepest regret
| is that they are to see his face no more The
hour for record of our friends work as a
preacher, or as man, or for picturipg of
| his mind and character, has not yet come.
| We all hope that after brief season some
\ friend whose intimate acquaintance with
/ daily living in those thirty years past may
| give him fitness for the task will render this
/ kindly service to the ministry and the
| church But to-day Is not the time for this.
| To day is oonsecrated wholly to sorrow and
1 to friendship, and we tell to-day only what
| we feel. Our friend was always deemed to
| me to be wonderfully interesting in mind and
spirit and to be wonderfully interesting in
| both. His mind was filed with delight in
every new vision of truth which opened to
| him. He seized upon the truth with the
| eagerness of child and made it his own in q
| peculiar sense az compared with most of the
| men whom I have known. The moment he
came to him it was taken up and TRANSPORTED
| as it were by a mental power, 30 that il
gained freshness and beauty which made ii
a thing of life and joy. 1t continued also 9
| living thing. 1t did not remain to day what
it was yesterday, but with each new morn
| ing, as we might almost say, it presented it
| self in some new aspect and this inclined the
mind to see within it a new charm and a new
blessing. Thoughts came to him respecting
| it as sweetly as the flowers come in the sum-
1 h. - ell
of a fountain. The outlook seemed to
| reach even further i. into the distance
as the thoughts were richer and deeper
| and beyond what could be seen by the ut
most stretch of the present vision there was
| a greater glory to inspire and allure the seek
/ ing mind in the future The constantly arts
| ing thoughts also seemed themselves to be
/ neglected to the same mysterious process OF
/ which have spoken. They were filed, there
| fore, with new force and took upon them
| selves fresh coloring as the days passed on.
They enriched the mind as the mind by its
own vitalizing energy appeared to enrich
/ them. They made life an ever fresh and
| ever bright thing. l remember hearing him
| say once that sometimes after he had been
/ thinking upon a subject in the evening hours
| without finding it open itself clearly before
| him, he would lay it aside and fall asleep fol-
| the night, and that when he walked in the
| morning the thoughts would be waiting fol-
1
| ing towards the light. And I can think OF
no man of whom 1 know of whom can more
| easily believe this. His ever active mind we
| can almost picture to ourselves as restlessly
pressing on its course even while the body
slept, and reaching out after that which il
conscious of when the day should return. As
| a man thinketh SO is he. How true these
| words of scripture are, not only in the sense
in which they were used by the sacred writer
| but in the other views of them also. The more
| happy thoughts man has the happier is his
life. The richer his thoughts are the richer
his life. Surely our friend, as he held
communion with truth and with his own
| mind, must have realized in himself the
| possession of true happiness and wealth
| which few men know so fully-a happiness
| which mono who have experience of it would
change for the best outward gifts which the
| world has to bestow. can only think of
him now and in the coming time as taking
| every new revelation of truth and every new
| measure of knowledge into his mind as he
| was wont to do while with us here-only
| more largely and more confdentially-and
as turning the newly known thing or the
truth impaired to him on every side to see
| its own beauty or its fitness in relation to
| other truths and things. Someone has told
me that his last words, as the shadows of the
| unseen came suddenly upon him, were: What
| is this? May we not believe that what seem
| ed to us the shadow was to him an inbreak-
| ing of the heavenly light and that his
spirit followed the voice that called him, it
| was that he might receive an answer of love
and of truth to every questioning of his
| eager mind? The other life united itself
| closely to this life in his case. We cannot
doubt the reality of the other life as we see
him passing into it and we cannot think of
/ it, as it seems to me, except as bearing him
forward in the fullness of happy thoughts.
But his spirit was as interesting as his mind.
He had rich, generous and magnanjmous
| nature. The royal government of his soul
affected his living as well as his thinking.
He was free in his thoughts. But he never
moved forward without giving due weight
and influence to what lay behind him. If he
turned to the new he did so with tolerance
for the old.
The Second church of Fair Haven sent up
Judge Charles A. Bray and Judge Lucius P.
Deming to attend the funeral. This church
was DR.. Burton's first charge, and at a recent
meeting not only the gentlemen named but
the following were named a committee to